Luckner Sylvain, a former pastor of the First Haitian Baptist Church in Norwich, was sentenced Wednesday to 2.5 years in prison for repeatedly molesting an underage family member.

“I apologize for everything,” Sylvain, 49, of 44 S. A St. in Taftville, said.

New London Superior Court Judge Susan Handy also sentenced Sylvain to 10 years of probation with strict conditions.

When he leaves prison and begins probation, Sylvain will have to register as a sex offender. He must have no contact with his victim, who is now a college student in New Jersey, or her immediate family. Because Sylvain and the victim are related, that cuts him off from part of his family as well.

Sylvain also must submit to random polygraph tests, random urine and sensor testing and random searches of himself, his home, car, job, phone and computer. He will be forbidden from going to places where children may gather and he can’t have any unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 16 without first getting permission from the Office of Adult Probation.

Other probation conditions include mandatory psychiatric testing and treatment. Sylvain will have to report on all existing or new romantic or sexual relationships, and will have to have his job and home approved by the probation office.

Sylvain has a brother in Philadelphia who has agreed to let Sylvain live there when he leaves prison, Paul Chinigo, Sylvain’s attorney, said.

In a plea bargain, Sylvain pleaded guilty in September to risk of injury to a minor under the Alford Doctrine, a legal procedure in which he did not agree to all the accusations against him but admitted enough evidence existed to get a conviction.

Sylvain molested the victim in 2006 and 2007, beginning when she was 12 and he was 43, prosecutor Theresa Anne Ferryman said. The victim revealed the molestation in December 2011, Ferryman said.

Ferryman said the victim is doing well in college but is “reluctant to return to her home in Connecticut until this situation is resolved.”

Sylvain is trying to make amends, Chinigo said. He said the family, including Sylvain’s wife, has rallied around to support the victim.

Sylvain reportedly fled to Haiti in December 2011, but was captured in Florida and returned to Connecticut last April.

Sylvain has not been associated with the First Haitian Baptist Church since 2008. Representatives of the church could not be reached Wednesday for comment.

Sylvain is co-founder of the Taftville-based Bethany Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raised money to benefit children affected by the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti.